Software Update: jAlbum 11.5

Version 11.5 of jAlbum has been released. This program makes it easy to generate and edit professional looking HTML photo albums. In a clean interface, photos can be easily adjusted, the order can be changed and the appearance of the web page can be determined. If everything is to your liking, the result can be placed on a web page via the built-in ftp client. Because the software is developed in Java, jAlbum is available for a wide range of operating systems. The Windows version has issues with some versions of Java and is therefore bundled with Java, resulting in a larger download.

Since version 10, the program is no longer free for commercial use and ads are used in the free version. A standard license for version 11 and all 11 series updates costs 39 euros, removes all advertising and gives access to higher priority support. Other licenses, for commercial use or in conjunction with cloud storage, are also available available. If you don’t need these new options or would rather not show ads with their photos, you can still version 9 to download. In version 11.5 the following changes and improvements have been made:

News and Updates

• Keywords can now be viewed and edited in thumbnail view
• One can quickly switch between viewing and editing file names, titles, captions or keywords by right clicking the “label type” indicator in the status bar
• Uploading albums to the root of the remote host or to any folder containing other folders than album folders is now considerable faster
• Less nagging: Only warns the first time a user attempts to upload an album to the web root of a server account
• Bundled “Minimal” skin now updated to use the new video tag (gives an embedded player). Thanks for that one jGromit. Also showcases a simple Google Maps integration
• Skins may disable thumbnail layout panel by specifying skin property
• Account profiles can now be renamed
• The embedded editor now supports the recently added variables “videoWidth”, “videoHeight”, “videoFPS”, “videoDuration”, “fileCategory” and “gpsLocation”
• Minor API improvements
• When opening files using the embedded editor, the currently open image directory is now the default
• Developers: Updated plugin API to support adding custom tool bar buttons
• Developers: Small fixes and improvements to skin properties editor
• Bundled Turtle skin now updated to 4.4.1

Bug fixes

• Uploading html files using the protocols “ftps”, “ftpes” and “ftp (ftp4j)” would sometimes mangle foreign characters (long standing bug)
• Could accidentally leave edit view when files in the current folder were being added or modified
• Fix for painting bug when selecting some album objects
• Fixed rendering bug in label editor
• Developers: The AlbumImage API ignored the compressionQuality parameter